JP2005072819A - Signal processing apparatus and method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a signal processing apparatus and method capable of demodulating a signal including a control signal subjected to spread spectrum processing and transmission data modulated by a prescribed modulation system. <P>SOLUTION: The signal processing apparatus includes: an orthogonal demodulator 106 for converting an input signal into an I-Q baseband signal; a multipath detection circuit having a first correlation unit for using a spread code to apply inverse spread processing to the baseband signal and a peak detection circuit for detecting a peak of an output of the first correlation unit; a second correlation unit for carrying out inverse spread processing with the spread code by using a maximum peak position of the correlation output detected by the peak detection circuit for a demodulation timing; a phase discrimination circuit for detecting an output phase of the second correlation unit at the maximum peak position of a symbol period obtained by the multipath detection circuit 110; a spread code demodulator for demodulating the baseband signal on the basis of an output of the phase discrimination circuit; a first equalizer for applying waveform equalization to the control signal; and a second equalizer 140 for receiving an output of the first equalizer 120 to apply waveform equalization to the transmission data. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention generally relates to demodulation of spread spectrum of digital information, and in particular, a signal having a control signal spectrum spread by a spread code and transmission data modulated by a predetermined modulation method following the control signal. Relating to demodulation. In the present invention, for example, when the spreading code is a Barker code and the predetermined modulation method is complementary code modulation (also referred to as “complementary code key input”, Complementary Code Keying: CCK), the multipath of the wireless LAN is used. This is suitable for improving reception performance with respect to delay characteristics. Here, “CCK” refers to a modulation scheme used in a wireless LAN using the 2.4 GHz band conforming to IEEE 802.11b and realizing a data transmission rate of 11 Mbps at the maximum.

  Conventionally, an equalizer (see, for example, Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2) and a RAKE demodulator (for example, see Non-Patent Document 1) as techniques for improving the performance of multipath delay characteristics in a wireless LAN device or the like. It has been known.

  Hereinafter, the equalizer 210 mounted on the receiver 200 of the conventional wireless LAN apparatus will be described with reference to FIGS. 10 and 11. Here, FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the receiver 200 of the conventional wireless LAN apparatus described in Patent Document 1, and FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the equalizer 210 mounted on the receiver 200. FIG. The equalizer 210 is used to remove delay distortion generated in a transmission path of a signal modulated with a plurality of Barker codes for signal multiplexing on the transmission side. There is also a method of using a rake demodulator as a method of removing the influence of delayed waves generated by multipaths on a signal spread by a Barker code.

  Here, “multipath” means that a transmission signal is reflected / diffracted by a failure such as a building or terrain, and the terminal receives the same radio wave from a plurality of paths. When a multipath occurs, the terminal receives radio waves of multiple different path distances, resulting in a phase shift in the waveform, resulting in noise in the received radio waves and errors in the received signal, or decoding of the code Problems such as being unable to do.

  An operation of the receiver 200 illustrated in FIG. 10 will be described. When the output signal from the transmitter is input to the input terminal 202 of the receiver 200, the analog arithmetic circuit 204 amplifies it and converts it into a baseband signal. The correlator 206 then correlates between the Barker code multiplied by the modulated signal and the same Barker code in the receiver 200. Correlator 206 outputs a demodulated signal based on the correlation result to equalizer 210. The equalizer 210 removes a delay component generated in the transmission path from the signal based on the correlation result by the correlator 206 and outputs the signal to the signal position detector 220. The signal position detection circuit 220 detects the signal position of the signal output from the equalizer 210 and outputs the signal position information to the demodulator 222 and the combiner 224. The demodulator 222 decodes the signal using the output of the equalizer 210 and the signal position information from the signal position detector 220. The signal decoded by demodulator 222 is output to combiner 224. The combiner 224 combines the demodulated signal with the signal demodulated by the demodulator 222 using the signal position information of the signal position detector 220 and outputs the combined signal to the output terminal 226.

  Referring to FIG. 11, the equalizer 210 includes a tap coefficient calculation circuit 211 that obtains a tap coefficient (filter coefficient) having a value corresponding to the magnitude of the delay distortion from the signal based on the correlation result from the correlator 206, This is input to an equalization arithmetic circuit 217 that removes delay distortion from the input signal. The tap coefficient calculation circuit 211 separates multipaths using a training signal (known signal) sent before transmission data, obtains a time average value of the multipaths and stores it in a memory (not shown), and an equalization calculation circuit 217. Used as a tap coefficient. The equalization operation circuit 217 includes a subtractor 212, a determination circuit 213 that determines whether or not there is a delay in the input signal, delay circuits 214a to 214c that delay a signal that the determination circuit 213 determines that there is delay distortion, and a delay circuit A decision feedback equalizer is configured that includes multipliers 215a to 215c that multiply the respective outputs from 214a to 214c by tap coefficients, and an adder 216 that adds the outputs of the multipliers 215a to 215c.

  Next, the rake demodulator 250 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the rake demodulator 250. The signal received by the antenna 252 is converted to an IQ baseband signal by the quadrature demodulator 256 after the reception level is made constant by the AGC circuit 254. From the converted I-Q baseband signal, the multipath detection circuit 258 obtains a delay wave profile having a symbol period representing the symbol length, which is the minimum unit of signal transmission capability, and based on the obtained delay wave profile. The delayed wave information T1, T2, and T3 for rake synthesis are output to each of the correlators 260a to 260c. The IQ correlator outputs obtained by correcting the delay time based on the delayed wave information obtained in the respective correlators 260a to 260c are phase-shifted by the multipliers 262a to 262c for correcting the gain and phase. And the amplitude of IQ is modified. The adder 264 combines the outputs of the multipliers to obtain an IQ signal, and the differential phase demodulator 266 demodulates the IQ signal into symbol data.

FIG. 13 shows an example of a delayed wave profile within the symbol period of the correlator output obtained by the multipath detection circuit 258. T1, T2, and T3 indicate the delay times of the multipath delay waves, and the IQ correlation signals obtained by correcting the delay times of the delay waves given by the correlators are output to the multipliers 262a, 262b, and 262c.
JP-A-9-102758 (FIG. 1 on page 9 and FIG. 6 on page 11) U.S. Pat. No. 6,233,273 “Rake Receiver with embedded Decision Feedback Equalizer with Built-in Decision Feedback Equalizer” Science and Technology Publishing, Digital Communication, John G. Proakis, page 926

  The configuration of the conventional equalizer described above has the following problems in demodulating the CCK following the modulation signal using the 11-bit Barker code described in IEEE standard 802.11b and the modulation signal using the Barker code. Have. That is, since the receiver 200 obtains the tap coefficient of the equalizer 210 by averaging the correlation results obtained by the correlator 206 in order to remove the influence of the multipath delay wave, the multipath changes over time. If you can not remove the delay distortion. Further, the equalizer 210 uses a signal after correlation with a Barker code, and cannot be used for a CCK modulated wave following the Barker code modulated signal. On the other hand, since the rake demodulator 250 also obtains a delay profile from the training signal and performs rake synthesis using the obtained delay profile, a good result cannot be obtained when the multipath changes during reception of the CCK modulated wave. When the delay interval is small, the IQ phase information of each delayed wave tends to be inaccurate due to the influence of each delayed wave. As a result, an error occurs in the received signal or decoding cannot be performed in any receiver.

  The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-described problems of the prior art, and includes a control signal spectrum spread by a spreading code, and a transmission signal modulated by a predetermined modulation method following the control signal. It is an exemplary object to provide a signal processing apparatus and method capable of stably demodulating a signal having data in an environment affected by delay waves such as multipath.

  A signal processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention is a signal processing for demodulating an input signal having a control signal spectrum spread by a spreading code and transmission data modulated by a predetermined modulation method following the control signal. An orthogonal demodulator for converting the input signal into an IQ baseband signal displayed on an IQ constellation, and using the spreading code to convert the IQ baseband signal A multipath detection circuit comprising: a first correlator for despreading; and a peak detection circuit for detecting a peak of the first correlator output within a symbol period having a period of the spreading code length; A second correlator for despreading using the spreading code with the maximum peak position of the correlation output obtained by detecting the Q baseband signal by the peak detection circuit as a demodulation timing; A phase determination circuit for detecting the phase of the output of the second correlator at the maximum peak position of the symbol period obtained by the path detection circuit; and the IQ baseband signal based on the output of the phase determination circuit. A spreading code demodulator for demodulating, a first equalizer which is disposed between the orthogonal demodulator and the spreading code demodulator and performs waveform equalization on the control signal; and the first equalizer And a second equalizer that performs waveform equalization on the transmission data, and the first equalizer includes a first filter having a first filter coefficient. A first updating unit for updating the first filter coefficient, the first updating unit updating the first filter coefficient upon reception of the spreading code, and the second equalizer comprising: A second filter having a filter coefficient of 2 is used, and the second filter is used. A second updating unit for updating a filter coefficient, wherein the second updating unit updates the second filter coefficient when receiving the transmission data based on phase information of the IQ baseband signal. Features. In such a signal processing apparatus, the I-Q baseband signal from which the influence of the multipath delay wave and the intersymbol interference at the time of receiving the spread code modulated wave is removed is input to the second equalizer. Since the filter coefficients (tap coefficients) of the first and second equalizers can be updated according to the influence of multipath or the like, the time-varying delay distortion is removed to eliminate problems such as signal recognition errors. Can do.

  The spreading code is, for example, a Barker code, and the predetermined modulation scheme is, for example, DBPSK (Differential Binary Phase Shift Keying), DQPSK (Differential Quaternary Phase Shift Keying), or CCK.

  The signal processing device includes a reference phase generation unit that generates a reference phase based on an output of the phase determination circuit of the spread code demodulator, the IQ baseband signal for each spread code bit, and the reference phase. The first update unit of the first equalizer may update the first filter coefficient based on a comparison result of the comparison unit. Thereby, information excellent in autocorrelation can be used for the reference phase.

  The signal processing device includes a reference phase generation unit that generates a reference phase based on an output of the phase determination circuit of the spreading code demodulator, and phase information of a signal component at the maximum peak position in the symbol period. You may further have a phase angle adjustment part which adjusts the phase angle of the said IQ baseband signal based on the phase error information obtained by comparing with a phase. Since the phase angle adjustment unit adjusts the phase angle of the IQ baseband signal, the equalization operation by the first equalizer can be speeded up.

  The first equalizer is provided for each of the two peaks detected by the multipath detection circuit, and the signal processing device includes a delay circuit for delaying one of the two peaks. An adder for adding the outputs of the two first equalizers, and the output of the adder may be supplied to the spreading code demodulator and the second equalizer. Good. The adder adds the outputs of the two first equalizers to perform rake combining. When the intensity of the multipath delayed wave is close to the same level as the main signal, the correlation value for spreading code decoding is improves.

  The second equalizer includes a backward delay tap that stores phase information of the IQ baseband signal, a first multiplier that multiplies the IQ baseband signal and the second filter, A second multiplier that multiplies the value stored in the backward delay tap and the second filter, an integrator that multiplies the outputs of the first and second multipliers, and the IQ base A comparison unit that acquires an amplitude error of the IQ baseband signal based on the phase information of the band signal and outputs the amplitude error to the second update unit, and the signal processing device includes the second etc. A transmission data demodulator that receives the output of the accumulator of the generator and demodulates the transmission data may be further included. According to such a signal processing device, the second equalizer can reduce multipath delayed wave components that could not be reduced by the first equalizer. Since the value stored in the backward delay tap is limited to a constant value, the operation of the second equalizer is stabilized.

  A signal processing method according to another aspect of the present invention is a signal processing method for demodulating an input signal having a control signal spread spectrum by a spreading code and transmission data modulated by a predetermined modulation method following the control signal. A first equalization step of waveform equalizing with respect to the control signal by a first filter having a first filter coefficient; and a second filter coefficient having a second filter coefficient with respect to the transmission data. And a second equalization step of equalizing the waveform with the second filter, and a step of updating the first and second filter coefficients within a symbol period whose period is the spreading code length. Such a signal processing method has the same effect as the above-described signal processing method, and is embodied as hardware or software. As described above, the spreading code may be a Barker code, for example, and the predetermined modulation method may be DBPSK, DQPSK, or CCK.

  Further objects and other features of the present invention will become apparent from the preferred embodiments described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  According to the present invention, a signal having a control signal spectrum spread by a spreading code and transmission data modulated by a predetermined modulation method following the control signal is stable in an environment affected by a delayed wave such as a multipath. Thus, a signal processing apparatus and method that can be demodulated can be provided.

  Hereinafter, a receiver 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Here, FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing the receiver 100 of the first embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment assumes a wireless LAN composed of a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter transmits, as a radio signal, a signal having a control signal spectrum-spread with a Barker code and transmission data modulated with CCK following the control signal, and the receiver receives the signal as a radio signal. Since the transmitter modulates based on the IEEE standard 802.11b system, the illustration and description are omitted here.

  In the present application, the receiver (or signal processing device) is a concept that covers a semiconductor device such as an LSI and an electronic device (for example, a wireless LAN device) including the semiconductor device, and the signal processing method of the present invention is hardware or It may be embodied by any software. As shown in FIG. 1, the receiver 100 includes an antenna 102, an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit 104, a quadrature demodulator 106, an automatic frequency control (Automatic Frequency Control: AFC) circuit 108, and a multipath detection circuit. 110, an equalizer 120, a Barker code demodulator 130, an equalizer 140, a CCK demodulator 150, and a decoder 160.

  The antenna 102 receives a modulated signal transmitted from a transmitter (not shown). The AGC circuit 104 is connected to the antenna 102 so as to receive a signal from the antenna 102, and makes the output signal level constant even when the input signal level changes.

  The quadrature demodulator 106 is connected to the AGC circuit 104 so as to receive a signal from the AGC circuit 104, and an input signal is a baseband signal before modulation, which is represented by a complex (I− Q) Convert to a baseband signal. Further, the quadrature demodulator 106 obtains phase information at the maximum peak point from the correlation IQ signal at the maximum peak point.

  The AFC circuit 108 is connected to the quadrature demodulator 106 so as to feedback-control the quadrature demodulator 106, and keeps the frequency constant. That is, the AFC circuit 108 calculates a frequency shift from the IQ baseband signal and outputs the frequency shift component to the quadrature demodulator 106. The quadrature demodulator 106 corrects a frequency shift between a transmitter (not shown) and the receiver 100 using the frequency shift component from the AFC circuit 108.

  The multipath detection circuit 110 is connected to the quadrature demodulator 106 so as to receive the IQ baseband signal demodulated by the quadrature demodulator 106, and performs a correlation operation between the IQ baseband signal and the 11-bit Barker code. The maximum peak is detected from the obtained correlation value, the decoding timing (or symbol timing) of Barker decoding within the symbol period, and the sample timing (or chip timing) of the IQ baseband signal input to the equalizer 120 ) The chip is a unit of the transmission rate of the spread code, and corresponds to, for example, 1 bit of Barker code. A symbol is a minimum unit of signal transmission capability and corresponds to, for example, 11 bits of Barker code.

  More specifically, the multipath detection circuit 110 includes a correlator 112 for despreading the IQ baseband signal using a Barker code, and a correlator 112 within a symbol period having a Barker code length as a period. A peak detection circuit 114 for detecting an output peak.

  The equalizer 120 is connected to the quadrature demodulator 106 so as to receive the IQ baseband signal demodulated by the quadrature demodulator 106, and performs waveform shaping on the control signal. In the present embodiment, the equalizer 120 is a complex equalizer configured with a finite-time impulse response (FIR) filter, and generates an output for a certain finite time when an impulse response waveform is input. .

  The structure of the equalizer 120 is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, a delay tap (register) (D [0-17]) 121, a tap coefficient storage unit (C [0-8]) 122, multipliers 123a and 123b, and multipliers 124a to 124c. And a tap correction coefficient holding register (Coff_corr [0-6]) 126, a reference phase generation unit 127, an IQ output holding register 128a, a reference phase register 128b, and a comparator 129. In the present embodiment, the phase angle adjustment unit 118 is provided in front of the delay tap 121. The phase angle adjustment unit 118 may be disposed between the equalizer 120 and the multipath detection circuit 110, or may be configured integrally with either of them.

  The phase angle adjustment unit 118 compares the phase information of the IQ correlation signal at the maximum peak position in the symbol period obtained by the multipath detection circuit 106 with a reference phase for symbol phase determination described later, and obtains the obtained phase. The error information is set once as an initial phase error of the IQ baseband signal during the operation of the equalizer, and based on this, the phase angle of the IQ baseband signal from the quadrature demodulator 106 is uniformly adjusted. As a result, the equalizer can be quickly corrected for the phase error of the equalizer 120.

  The IQ baseband signal is input to the delay register 121, and the data in the delay register 121 is switched every time the IQ baseband signal is periodically input. Each time an IQ baseband signal is input, the output of the delay tap 121 and the tap coefficient stored in the tap coefficient storage unit 122 are multiplied for each tap in the multiplier 123a. The multiplier 123a sends the multiplication result to the accumulator 124c. The accumulator 124c accumulates the multiplication results, performs a complex calculation, and outputs an IQ baseband signal to the Barker demodulator 130. At the same time, the accumulator 124c saves the IQ output holding register 128a for 11 chips in the equalizer 120. .

  The Barker code demodulator 130 adds the Barker code at the timing obtained by adding the time delay due to the delay tap of the equalizer 120 to the decoding timing information obtained from the multipath detector 110 from the IQ baseband signal from the accumulator 124c. Is demodulated. As illustrated in FIG. 3, the Barker code demodulator 130 includes a correlator 132, a phase determination circuit 134, and a differential decoder 136. Here, FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the Barker code demodulator 130.

  The correlator 132 receives the IQ baseband signal from the accumulator 124c, and despreads it using the Barker code with the maximum peak position of the correlation output detected by the peak detection circuit 110 as a demodulation timing. The phase determination circuit 134 performs phase region determination on the IQ signal after correlation with the Barker code at the maximum peak position of the symbol period obtained by the multipath detection circuit 110, generates a reference phase, and obtains the reference phase. The obtained symbol phase determination result is transmitted to the reference phase generation unit 127 of the equalizer 120. FIG. 4 shows an example of phase determination of the correlation output (IQ signal). The differential decoder 130 obtains a differential phase between the phase determination result of the previous symbol and the current phase determination result, performs differential phase decoding, and sends the obtained bit information to the decoder 160.

  Returning to FIG. 2 again, the reference phase generation unit 127 for the reference phase of the equalizer 120 generates a reference phase for 11 chip timing based on the symbol phase determination result from the phase determination circuit 134 of the Barker demodulator 130. Store in the reference phase register 128b.

  The comparison unit 129 calculates an error from the reference phase for 11 chip timings stored in the IQ output holding register 128a and the reference phase register 128b for each chip timing based on the following Equation 1, and the error is multiplied by a multiplier. To 123b.

乗算器１２３ｂは、Ｉ−Ｑ出力保持レジスタ１２８ａに保存した出力データを作成したときに使用した遅延タップ１２１のＩ−Ｑベースバンド信号を用いて遅延タップ毎のタップ修正係数を以下の数式２によって算出し、タップ修正係数保持レジスタ１２６に保存する。

The multiplier 123b uses the IQ baseband signal of the delay tap 121 used when creating the output data stored in the IQ output holding register 128a to calculate the tap correction coefficient for each delay tap according to the following equation 2. Calculate and store in the tap correction coefficient holding register 126.

加算器１２４ｂは、かかるタップ修正係数を積算し、積算結果をタップ修正係数保持レジスタ１２６に格納する。１１ｃｈｉｐ分の遅延タップ毎の修正係数が求まると、バーカー復調器１３０のシンボル復調タイミング毎に等化器１２０のタップ係数格納部１２２のタップ係数を修正する。タップ係数の修正が完了した時点で、タップ修正係数保持レジスタ１２６はクリアされ、次のシンボルに対するタップ修正係数の保持準備に入る。等化器１２０は上記の動作をバーカー符号変調波を受信している間継続することにより、マルチパス遅延による遅延波の影響を取り除くことができ、良好な受信結果が得られる。

The adder 124 b integrates the tap correction coefficients and stores the integration result in the tap correction coefficient holding register 126. When the correction coefficient for each delay tap of 11 chips is obtained, the tap coefficient in the tap coefficient storage unit 122 of the equalizer 120 is corrected at each symbol demodulation timing of the Barker demodulator 130. When the correction of the tap coefficient is completed, the tap correction coefficient holding register 126 is cleared, and preparation for holding the tap correction coefficient for the next symbol is started. The equalizer 120 continues the above operation while receiving the Barker code modulated wave, thereby removing the influence of the delayed wave due to the multipath delay and obtaining a good reception result.

  FIG. 5 shows a Barker correlation output waveform (power component) in the Barker code demodulator 130 at this time. As shown in the figure, the equalizer 120 performs a tap coefficient update process in accordance with the decoding timing of the Barker code demodulator 130, completes processing for 11 chips, and the next Barker code demodulator 130 The operation of updating the tap coefficient before the decoding timing is performed for each Barker code.

  When the CCK modulated wave is received following the Barker modulated wave, the equalizer 120 stops the tap coefficient updating operation, holds the tap coefficient, and operates as an FIR filter. As for the CCK modulated wave, the IQ baseband signal from which the influence of the fixed multipath delay wave and the intersymbol interference is removed at the time of reception of the Barker modulated wave in the equalizer 120 operating as the FIR filter is used for the CCK modulated wave, etc. To the generator 140.

  Hereinafter, the equalizer 140 will be described with reference to FIG. The equalizer 140 is embodied as an FIR filter in this embodiment, and as shown in FIG. 6, a delay tap (register) 141, multipliers 142a and 142b, a tap coefficient storage unit 143, an integrator 144a, and 144b, a phase region determination unit 145, a comparison unit 146, and a rear tap 147.

  The delay tap 141 stores the IQ baseband signal input at every chip timing. The multiplier 142b multiplies the IQ baseband signal and the tap coefficient of the tap coefficient storage unit 143. The accumulator 144 b accumulates the tap unit multiplication results from the multiplier 142 b and outputs the IQ baseband signal obtained by the accumulation to the phase region determination unit 145, the comparator 146, and the CCK demodulator 150. The phase region determination unit 145 determines the phase of the IQ baseband signal output at each chip timing, and outputs the obtained phase region determination value to the comparison unit 146 and the rear tap 147. The comparison unit 146 calculates an IQ amplitude error that is a difference between the phase region determination value and the IQ baseband signal, and outputs the IQ error to the multiplier 142a. Thereby, the multiplier 142a corrects the tap coefficient. The backward delay tap 147 stores the phase region determination value.

  The CCK demodulator 150 demodulates the CCK using, for example, a Walsh function. The decoder 160 decodes the transmission data as serial data.

  With the above configuration, even when the tap coefficient of the equalizer 120 is stopped, the equalizer 140 can reduce the multipath delayed wave component that cannot be reduced by the equalizer 120. In addition, since the value stored in the rear tap 147 is limited to a constant value, the operational stability of the equalizer 140 can be improved. As described above, even when a CCK modulated wave following a Barker modulated wave is received, the equalizer 140 is used to operate the CCK signal by reducing the multipath delay component when receiving the CCK signal. Good reception results can be obtained for modulated waves.

  Next, a receiver 100A according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. Here, FIG. 7 is a schematic block diagram of the receiver 100A. The receiver 100A includes an antenna 102, an AGC circuit 104, an orthogonal demodulator 106, an AFC circuit 108, a multipath detection circuit 110A, equalizers 120A and 120B, a Barker code demodulator 130A, an equalizer 140A, a CCK demodulator 150A, It has a decoder 160A, a delay circuit 170, and an adder 180. Since the operation from the antenna 102 to the AFC circuit 108 is the same as that of the receiver 100, description thereof is omitted. Moreover, what added the alphabet to reference codes, such as equalizer 120A, has the same structure as the reference code without an alphabet.

  The IQ baseband signal output from the quadrature demodulator 106 is input to the multipath detection circuit 110A, the equalizer 120A, and the delay circuit 170. In the multipath detection circuit 110A, the demodulated IQ baseband signal and Barker code are correlated by a correlator, the maximum output peak position and peak power value within the symbol period of the correlator output, and the second peak Find the position and peak power value. When the second peak power value is, for example, ½ or more of the first peak power value, the multipath delay time difference Tdm between the first peak and the second peak is output to the delay circuit 170. At the same time, the phase difference Δφ between the phase obtained from the IQ at the first peak position and the phase obtained from the IQ at the second peak position is output to the delay circuit 170. The delay circuit 170 sets the number of delay taps based on the multipath delay time difference information from the multipath detection circuit 110A, and sets the phase difference Δφ from the multipath detection circuit 110A to the input IQ baseband signal. The phase is rotated and output to the equalizer 120B.

  FIG. 8 shows a Barker code correlation output waveform of the multipath detection circuit 110A at this time. As shown in the figure, the IQ baseband signals of the equalizers 120A and 120B are multipath delay wave time difference information Tdm and phase information, and the Barker correlation output for the first peak and the Barker correlation for the second peak. The output peak position and the phase of the IQ baseband signal are matched. For example, the equalizer 120A operates so that the second peak position becomes the maximum peak, and the equalizer 120B corrects the tap coefficient of the equalizer so that the first peak becomes the maximum.

  FIG. 9 shows the peak power when the correlation between the IQ baseband signals output from the equalizers 120A and 120B obtained by the equalizers 120A and 120B is obtained by the Barker code. Showing change.

  The IQ baseband signal outputs of the equalizers 120A and 120B that output the Barker correlation values shown in FIG. 9 are added by the adder 180, and the added IQ baseband signal is input to the Barker code demodulator 130A. To do. The Barker code demodulator 130A inputs the input IQ baseband signal to a correlator with the Barker code, and outputs the correlator output to the code demodulation position information from the multipath detection circuit 110A for the tap delay time of the equalizer. The phase is determined and decoded at the delayed decoding position. The equalizers 120A and 120B perform necessary processing for updating the tap coefficient based on the symbol phase determination information of the Barker code demodulator 130A. Thereafter, the tap coefficients of the equalizers 120A and 120B are continuously updated during reception of the Barker code. Since equalizers 120A and 120B continuously modify tap coefficients during Barker code reception, even if the multipath characteristics change, the equalizer tap coefficients can be modified to support multipath characteristics that change over time. it can. Further, the reference phase for correcting the tap coefficient is a 11-bit Barker code unit phase determination value based on the symbol determination information of the Barker code correlator output excellent in autocorrelation, and the Barker code bit unit I-Q signal error is obtained, the process for correcting the tap coefficient is continued for one symbol (11 bits), and the tap correction value for correcting the tap coefficient is integrated. The tap correction value is averaged by this integration process, and the tap coefficient of the equalizer is stably updated. In addition, since the rake synthesis is performed by adding the outputs of the equalizers 120A and 120B, when the intensity of the multipath delayed wave is close to the same level as that of the main signal, In comparison, the correlation value for Barker decoding is improved, so that a good result is obtained. Next, when the transmission data following the Barker code modulated signal is CCK, the equalizers 120A and 120B stop updating the tap coefficients at the time when the CCK signal is input, and the output of the adder 180 is output. Input to the equalizer 140. Since the subsequent operation is the same as that of the receiver 100, description thereof is omitted.

  The equalizers 120, 120A, and 120B according to the first and second embodiments input the IQ baseband signal to the equalizer 120 at the sample timing. No problem. This can be dealt with by correcting the time for thinning out the samples and creating the Barker decoding timing. Similarly, an IQ baseband signal may be input in a chip cycle. The equalizers 140 and 140A are equalizers that operate at a chip cycle. When the equalizers 120, 120A, and 120B output data at the sample period or 1/2 chip period, they are thinned out at the input terminals of the equalizers 140 and 140A and input to the equalizers 140 and 140A. . At this time, the timing of the chip cycle is captured at a chip timing that matches the first peak of the Barker signal correlation value detected by the multipath detection circuit 110A.

  As described above, by providing the equalizer for the Barker modulation wave and the equalizer for the CCK modulation wave, first, the delay wave generated by the multipath is delayed by the Barker modulation wave equalizer. Compared with a conventional demodulator, the component can be reduced and the CCK modulated wave can be removed by using a chip-operating equalizer to remove the code interference wave component that could not be eliminated by the Barker equalizer. A good demodulator can be provided.

  Since the equalizer used in the present invention handles complex signals, the calculation method in updating the tap coefficients of the equalizer is a complex format. Further, the multiplication of the tap convergence coefficient accompanying the updating of the tap coefficient of the equalizer is a general one and is not shown.

  As mentioned above, although preferable embodiment of this invention was described, it cannot be overemphasized that this invention is not limited to these embodiment, A various deformation | transformation and change are possible within the range of the summary. For example, the spreading code of the present invention is not limited to a Barker code such as a pseudo-noise code.

It is a schematic block diagram of the receiver of the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic block diagram of the equalizer of the receiver shown in FIG. It is a schematic block diagram of the Barker code demodulator shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of the reference | standard phase which the phase determination circuit of the Barker code demodulator shown in FIG. 3 produces | generates. It is a figure which shows the Barker code correlation output of the Barker demodulator shown in FIG. FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram of an equalizer different from the equalizer shown in FIG. 2 of the receiver shown in FIG. 1. It is a schematic block diagram of the receiver of the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the Barker code correlation output in the multipath detection circuit of the receiver shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the correlation result of the Barker code output from the equalizer of the receiver shown in FIG. It is a schematic block diagram of the conventional receiver. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the equalizer mounted in the receiver of FIG. It is a schematic block diagram of another conventional receiver. 13 is an example of a delayed wave profile within a symbol period of a correlator output obtained by a multipath detection circuit of the receiver shown in FIG.

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100, 100A Receiver 106 Quadrature demodulator 110 Multipath detection circuit 120, 120A, 120B Equalizer 130, 130A Barker demodulator 140, 140A Equalizer 150, 150A CCK demodulator 160, 160A Decoder 170 Delay circuit 180 Addition vessel

Claims (8)

A signal processing device for demodulating an input signal having a control signal spread spectrum by a spreading code and transmission data modulated by a predetermined modulation method following the control signal,
A quadrature demodulator for converting the input signal into an IQ baseband signal displayed on an IQ constellation;
A first correlator for despreading the IQ baseband signal using the spreading code, and detecting a peak of the first correlator output within a symbol period having a period of the spreading code length A multipath detection circuit having a peak detection circuit;
A second correlator for despreading using the spreading code with the maximum peak position of the correlation output obtained by detecting the IQ baseband signal by the peak detection circuit as a demodulation timing, and obtained by the multipath detection circuit. A phase determination circuit that detects the phase of the output of the second correlator at the maximum peak position of the symbol period, and spread code demodulation that demodulates the IQ baseband signal based on the output of the phase determination circuit And
A first equalizer disposed between the orthogonal demodulator and the spread code demodulator and performing waveform equalization on the control signal;
A second equalizer that receives the output of the first equalizer and performs waveform equalization on the transmission data;
The first equalizer includes a first filter having a first filter coefficient, and includes a first update unit that updates the first filter coefficient, and the first update unit includes the first filter unit. Update the filter coefficient when receiving the spreading code,
The second equalizer uses a second filter having a second filter coefficient and includes a second updating unit that updates the second filter coefficient, and the second updating unit includes the I− A signal processing apparatus, wherein the second filter coefficient is updated when the transmission data is received based on phase information of a Q baseband signal. 2. The signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the spreading code is a Barker code, and the predetermined modulation method is DBPSK, DQPSK, or CCK. The signal processing device includes:
A reference phase generator for creating a reference phase based on the output of the phase determination circuit of the spread code demodulator;
A comparator for comparing the IQ baseband signal for each spreading code bit with the reference phase;
The signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first update unit of the first equalizer updates the first filter coefficient based on a comparison result of the comparison unit. The signal processing device includes:
A reference phase generator for creating a reference phase based on the output of the phase determination circuit of the spread code demodulator;
Phase angle adjustment for adjusting a phase angle of the IQ baseband signal based on phase error information obtained by comparing phase information of a signal component at the maximum peak position in the symbol period with the reference phase The signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: The first equalizer is provided for each of the two peaks detected by the multipath detection circuit,
The signal processing device includes:
A delay circuit for delaying one of the two peaks;
An adder for adding the outputs of the two first equalizers;
The signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an output of the adder is supplied to the spreading code demodulator and the second equalizer. The second equalizer is
A backward delay tap for storing phase information of the IQ baseband signal;
A first multiplier that multiplies the IQ baseband signal and the second filter;
A second multiplier for multiplying the value stored in the backward delay tap by the second filter;
An integrator for integrating the outputs of the first and second multipliers;
A comparator that acquires an amplitude error of the IQ baseband signal based on the phase information of the IQ baseband signal and outputs the amplitude error to the second update unit;
The signal processing apparatus further includes a transmission data demodulator that receives the output of the integrator of the second equalizer and demodulates the transmission data. A signal processing method for demodulating an input signal having a control signal spread spectrum by a spreading code and transmission data modulated by a predetermined modulation method following the control signal,
A first equalization step for waveform equalization with respect to the control signal by a first filter having a first filter coefficient;
A second equalization step of waveform equalizing with respect to the transmission data by a second filter having a second filter coefficient;
And a step of updating the first and second filter coefficients within a symbol period as a period in which the spreading code appears. 8. The signal processing method according to claim 7, wherein the spreading code is a Barker code, and the predetermined modulation scheme is DBPSK, DQPSK, or CCK.

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